tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-226690016900160196.post5482723824434113103..comments2015-07-31T09:14:06.769-04:00Comments on Legal History Blog: Reviewed: Kalman, Right Star RisingMary L. Dudziaknoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-226690016900160196.post-492746878820381142010-09-21T11:11:55.330-04:002010-09-21T11:11:55.330-04:00Stan Katz&#39;s reaction to Frum&#39;s review is a...Stan Katz&#39;s reaction to Frum&#39;s review is at http://chronicle.com/blogPost/Frum-History/26827/Dan Ernsthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15293271193435973157noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-226690016900160196.post-28941922285115535442010-09-06T10:02:17.014-04:002010-09-06T10:02:17.014-04:00I think everyone&#39;s being a bit unfair to Frum....I think everyone&#39;s being a bit unfair to Frum. His review asks for more analysis, less recital of (already known) facts. I haven&#39;t read the book, so I have no idea if his critique is on target, but the review seemed to me to be calling for more elaborate argument, not less.David Schorrnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-226690016900160196.post-57684156126986331532010-09-05T14:11:08.432-04:002010-09-05T14:11:08.432-04:00Frum&#39;s review is just steeped in anti-intellec...Frum&#39;s review is just steeped in anti-intellectualism and a disdainful ambivalence toward elaborated argument. It&#39;s hard to tell from him whether or not Kalman&#39;s book engages at all in the latter, but I think Frum is vaguely suggesting that it doesn&#39;t. If so, then he&#39;s answered his own question. &quot;This kind of history&quot;--presumably referring to a straightforward recitation of facts with no original thesis or &quot;spin&quot; to distinguish it--has no point. But is there no point to accurate, clear, honest writing like Kalman&#39;s? Has the &#39;net preempted a demand for it? Why do I suspect that if Kalman had written a Cubist history in response to the digital (yawn) &quot;revolution&quot; (way overstated, as it is so often these days) Frum would have taken her to task for that? If he doesn&#39;t like or can&#39;t manage to read entire books, he ought to say so.Dean C. Rowanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11846388304210211279noreply@blogger.com